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For a while, the biggest film story of 2020 was what movies weren’t coming out, as the pandemic closed theaters and bumped release dates for some of the year’s biggest would-be blockbusters (see you later, Black Widow and No Time to Die, hopefully) and buzziest awards-bait (or is there another reason Spielberg directed a remake of West Side Story?). But no more, because it turns out a lot of good movies were still released last year—and lots of them have just been nominated for Oscars. But the biggest difference between this Oscar year and any other is that you can easily (if not ne...

Possible snub: “Sound of Metal” Possible surprise: “News of the World” Linda May, left, and Frances McDormand in “Nomadland.” (Searchlight Pictures) Analysis: The Producers Guild dropped its list of 10 best picture nominees on Monday. The Oscars is in its final year of its fluctuating slate that has always numbered either eight or nine movies. So that’s bad news for at least one PGA nominee, probably “Borat Subsequent Moviefilm,” as the academy owns a dispiriting history of ignoring comedies. The academy also hasn’t nominated an animated movie since abandoning its fixed l...

Print We’re probably looking at a historic set of Oscar nominees for director this year, and the news could go several different ways. There could be two women — or possibly three. There could be two nominees of Asian descent. The slate could have a majority of nonwhite nominees. For the record: 5:47 PM, Feb. 22, 2021An earlier version of this post omitted Preston Sturges and Joan Harrison from a list of screenwriters nominated for two Oscars in the same year. Any one of these outcomes would be groundbreaking and a possible sign of progress or, since this is the Oscars, it could be an ...

Borat 2 Will Be Sacha Baron Cohen's Final Undercover Movie or TV Show Borat 2 Will Be Sacha Baron Cohen's Final Undercover Movie or TV Show Sacha Baron Cohen declares he will no longer make movies playing undercover characters. Sacha Baron Cohen is a Hollywood actor unlike any other. While other performers work on movie sets with tightly controlled environments, Cohen made his name playing "undercover" characters like Ali G and Borat, to film himself taking part in real-world, frequently disturbing events. In a recent interview with CBS This Morning, the actor declared that his days of playi...

Making the Borat sequel was extremely stressful for producer due to the high levels of secrecy involved.